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PapayaMobile gets $4M for Android gaming

by Ronny Kerr, June 23, 2010 | Comments

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Mobile network for social gaming on Google Android smartphones is already profitable

PapayaMobile, a mobile network and social gaming platform for Google Android devices, has raised $4 million in new funding from global venture capital firm DCM.Centered right at the intersection of mobile gaming and social media, PapayaMobile provides an open-API, cross-platform mobile social networking service that third-party developers can integrate directly into their own apps. The idea is that, with Papaya's ...

Google Voice: Now for all to try (in the US)

by Ronny Kerr, June 23, 2010 | Comments

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Telecom service by Google offers voicemail transcription, one number for all your phones, and more

Google Voice is now open for sign-ups to anyone in the U.S.Previously invitation-only, Google Voice had over 1 million people actively using the service, but its infrastructure was not yet prepared to take on the masses. Though Google won't say how many new users it expects to register in the coming weeks, Craig Walker, product manager for Google said, "we ...

Playdom picks up another $33 million

by Ronny Kerr, June 22, 2010 | Comments

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A week following gigantic Zynga fundraiser, Playdom draws more money for social gaming

Social gaming startup Playdom has raised another $33 million in venture funding from new backers Bessemer Venture Partners, New World Ventures, and Steamboat Ventures.The new funding was added in a second closing of the Series A round that Playdom first closed late last year. For that round, Playdom picked up $43 million on a $260 million pre-money valuation from New ...

Facebook talks location features, statistics

by Ronny Kerr, June 22, 2010 | Comments

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With a privacy fight still in recent memory, Facebook's not rushing into location service features

One of the most anticipated Facebook features - a location-based service - remains on track to be launched soon. In London on Monday, at the first-ever Facebook developer event held outside of California, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke briefly on upcoming features and the company's latest statistics. "We are finishing designing our application soon and hope to offer it soon," ...

MobileBeat event July (Discount tickets here)

by Sponsored Story, June 22, 2010 | Comments

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Venturebeat's mobile event is July 12 and 13. Get your Vator discounted tickets

We wanted to give you a heads up about MobileBeat 2010, VentureBeat’s third annual conference on the future of mobile. This year's new two-day format will explore "The Year of The Superphone and Who Will Profit", and will be held on July 12-13 at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Three camps—carriers, device makers, and software developers—are all vying for dominion ...

Barnes & Noble Nook Wi-Fi undercuts Kindle

by Ronny Kerr, June 21, 2010 | Comments

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E-reader war should be as interesting as any other, with Amazon as the reigning giant

Barnes & Noble officially took the wraps off its new Nook Wi-Fi, the bookstore's latest eager attempt to dethrone the current e-book reader monarchy, ruled by the Amazon Kindle.The Nook Wi-Fi dons a 6" electronic paper display with 16 level grayscale and adjustable text size, all specifications that describe Amazon's rival reader, the Kindle 2. Barnes & Noble's Nook is ...

iPhone 4 is shipping, and other Apple mayhem

by Ronny Kerr, June 21, 2010 | Comments

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The new smartphones probably shouldn't arrive until June 24, the iPhone 4 official launch day

Less than a week after a torrent of iPhone 4-hungry customers stormed the online Apple Store and AT&T stores to pre-order the newest smartphone in the series, the device has started shipping.Judging by previous Apple pre-orders, customers shouldn't expect to receive their new tech toys earlier than June 24, the official launch day of the iPhone 4.By the end of ...

Goodbye to the office

by Seth Godin, June 21, 2010 | Comments

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I think in ten years the TV show 'the Office' will be seen as a quaint antique

Factories used to be arranged in a straight line. That's because there was one steam engine, and it turned a shaft. All the machines were set up along the shaft, with a belt giving each of them power. The office needed to be right next to this building, so management could monitor what was going on. 150 years later, why ...

VatorSplash Finalist: iChange

by Chris Caceres, June 18, 2010 | Comments

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iChange wants to be the online destination to help you improve your health

Fullerton, Ca.-based iChange, competed a few weeks ago at our Vator Splash event in San Francisco. The company's CEO, Stu MacFarlane presented his pitch on stage in front of several hundreds of entrepreneurs and investors. Here's the video we captured and a summary of what the company is working on. iChange offers a platform through which individuals can receive professional ...

Adults text while driving as much as teens do

by Ronny Kerr, June 18, 2010 | Comments

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Maybe even more striking, adults are a lot more likely to talk on the phone while driving than teens

One of your friends liked your comment on Facebook. Someone in your Twitter network checked-in to the local Starbucks for free Wi-Fi. You've got a text message!With mobile usage evermore on the rise, how are we supposed to avoid checking our phones while driving? Well, according to the latest Pew report on texting while driving, some of us hardly avoid ...

Working at Google - the first six months

by Don Dodge, June 18, 2010 | Comments

	So what's the difference working at Google vs Microsoft? So, what is it like working at Google? How is it different than working at Microsoft? I have answered that question at least 500 times in the past 6 months, so I thought I should write a more detailed answer. Google still feels like a startup. Larry and Sergey are very visible and active. Larry sat at the table next ...
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Monica Lewinsky: Unpaid intern

by Joe Gagliano, June 18, 2010 | Comments

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Navigating the paid vs. unpaid internship debate

The debate over paid vs. unpaid internships has received national attention. We’ve heard from nearly everyone – start-up executives, leery entrepreneurs, employer associations, career center professionals, students, parents and media. We’ve even received anonymous emails from people upset because we don’t insist that every post on YouTern, which just launched last month, be a paid position (perhaps they didn’t read ...

Funding roundup - week ending 06/18/10

by Ronny Kerr, June 18, 2010 | Comments

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Social gaming startup Zynga raises $147 million from Asian telecommunications company SoftBank

This week's funding roundup features a flurry of incredibly young startups that either launched in the last year (Abe's Market, Gogobot, SafetyWeb) or haven't yet launched at all (BeachMint, Worlize). The biggest financial news of the week, however, came from the king of social gaming startups, Zynga, which raised a $147 million investment from SoftBank, a Japanese telecommunications and media ...

AOL sells Bebo for 'meaningful tax deduction'

by Ronny Kerr, June 17, 2010 | Comments

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Criterion pays less than $10 million for social networking site purchased by AOL for $850 million

AOL has sold social networking site Bebo, the one it bought two years ago, to Criterion Capital Partners for less than $10 million.Criterion, a Los Angeles-based private equity fund, will "assume the rights and complete operating control over the global social platform business," which will remain based in San Francisco.The sale is extra notable due to the fact that AOL ...

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